Etymology

bomblet

B3O1M3B3L1E1T1

Today it means: A small or subsidiary bomb, such as one of those released by a cluster bomb. Full definition →

English bomb ← French bombe
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Frenchbombe
  2. Englishbomb
  3. English todaybomblet

From bomb + -let.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.